Mark, your videos are going to bless people from all around the world! You are an integral part of the Back to Eden Gardening movement! Thank you for allowing us to film you 10 years ago as you installed your demonstration garden!
I wish I had seen this Back to Eden video 5 years ago or even 2 years ago, but its never too late to start, we live in the Caribbean so we dont have the cold weather to contend with, I am hoping that I can kick start my projects, Don't worry Mark I will be messaging you for guidance if I run into challenges ... Such a blessing to hear you garden from the Biblical perspective, and I for sure am looking forward to seeing more of your content.
I like this guy.... But ultimately you have to learn what works for you.... I have disproven many myths people have told me ... Imagine that ... People repeating lies they are told ... Test and prove
Mark I hope you get this message. I started my woodchip garden in 2014 after watching Back To Eden video. I have a tremendous garden. It is so easy to take care of, it’s an 80’ by 80’ backyard garden. The reason I want you to get this message is I’ve learned to plant a cover crop in the fall which I kill out in the spring. I do this for 2 reasons. First to continually have roots in the ground which will build the soil and give food for all the microorganisms. 2nd is the cover crop will mulch the top of the garden all year long. Half of my garden now is this mulch cover and the other half have a woodchip cover. I’m actually in the tree business and I have a wood chipper and have access to all the chips I need. I actually prefer the mulch over the wood chips now that my garden is established. Per your video - I DIDNT GIVE UP and God has blessed my garden tremendously. God Bless You Mark, Steve Miller
Who would have guessed just HOW prophetic your comments of 10 years ago would be! So wonderful how you compared God's love to this gardening journey; thank you! I hope you make more videos.
The whole world needs to garden this way! Especially in climates with drought. My 86 year old aunt (died in 2009) gardened this way since the 60's in CA. She had a thriving mini orchard and garden 1/4 of acre. She grew all kinds of vegetables, Kiwi, apples, nectarines, peaches (3 different kinds), persimmons, pears, cherries, almonds, walnuts. The bounty was amazing and she always made jams for the family.
It appears as though your aunt was a forerunner! And yes, this message is very effective in climate with drought. Thank you for watching and your comments. Mark
Mark is the real deal!! Great garden, greater couple. I have visited this garden, soil is amazing, but the people are better. I’m so glad you are making these videos! I look forward to many more!
Found your channel and subscribed. Saw your video on the website I book Paul's second edition book by Devine. I've been BTE gardening for 4 years now and I do believe God released this method through Paul to save his children from hardship. I'm disabled and can't till, pull lots of weeds anymore besides I never enjoyed that at all. BTE gardening is So abundant and enjoyable that I now grow food all year in zone7. 😀
I’m watching and listening but I’m just listening to your voice!!! It’s such a awesome voice. Lol, I will watch the video again without getting distracted.
Excellent presentation! I'm so happy to see the progress you've made after all of these years. What a blessing! Hoping to be able to tour your garden. Be safe!
Gardening is a spiritual journey. Thank you for sharing yours with the rest of the world. Thank you for your words of wisdom. The Lord is my light and joy and I shall forever give glory to Him that created Heaven and Earth and us His children.
A word of warning about soil temperatures...I heard Paul Gautschi say something about chips being warmer earlier and things will grow earlier. Last year was the first year I really started getting results from my BTE garden experience and I found this to be absolutely true, but, maybe last year was weird with late freezes and all, but I struggled with a lot of things coming up early and getting frosted out. I love this method, but I, too, have made every mistake I could imagine but it's all education. Knowing what not to do is is a blessing!
I started my backyard garden July 11, 2021. I made a raised bed (actually, I just mounded up dirt around an area to keep the water from flowing away fast when it rains) and planted some green onions bought at the store. And they grew! Then, I kept learning. Soaking it in like a sponge! I found Elaine Ingham and Paul Gauchi. Now I have a good microscope, to check on my flocks and herds (Proverbs 27:23). And, from my wife's yardwork service company, I have begun hot composting like a madman! (dramatic, eh?) My back, front, and side yards are all now "covered" with half composted yard waste. I can hardly wait for my first delivery of wood chips from a local tree service here in Tucson, AZ. I'm lovin' it!
Wow, what a blessing. As soon as our Frederick County, MD landfill opens we're going to get our composted soil and get going! LOL Thank you for sharing what God as shown you.
In other regions outside of the north east, the concrete remesh is referred to as "Welded Wire Mesh", or WWM at the supply house. Great tips from Mark. So glad he devotes the time to share his garden publicly. Great family for sure, great people to learn from.
Hi Mark Mc comber, greetings and blessings to you from Bulgaria East Europe. I watched BTE atheist 4 times and some of the series others put out, My country doesn't have that service in Bg but I had a lot of goat and hey bedding mix. I left it to rot just for a year. My soil went from light gray to dark black soil filled with worms. This year I am doing some beds with lasagna method , some with hugulkultre and 1 with compost scraps and wood branches with leaves chopped by hand. It's finally time to get serious about growing our own food and you were right about the 10 year remark you made in the documentary. May God bless keep and protect yiu fam in Pensilvania, Tell Paul Gauchi a sister in Bulgaria sends her warm greetings.
Watch How Mushrooms Can Save The World on TED X youtube.The speaker scientist is Paul Stamets and how mushrooms clean the earth basiclly by eating and digesting diesel fuel just to mention one.Mushrooms are like the internet wiring under ground that actually communicate with each other.The medicinal miracles are endless and I have a feeling that the cure for covid- 19 is staring at us in Old Growth Forest.Too bad money is wasted on Big Pharma funding.
I love your testimony. Thank you for giving all the credit to God. I just recently discovered the garden of Eden method. It clicked with me having dug ginseng over the years and witnessing the black, fertile soil created by a natural process in the forest. I will be using this method for now on.
Hello Mark. It is great to know you have continued to carry them BTE gardening torch. I love watching Paul in this garden through the years, but it is evident he is slowing down. I have attempted to collect wood chips in my area and it has proved very difficult as I live in south east Arizona, part of the upper Sonoran desert extending north from mexico. Not a lot of trees and the company who does prune for the electric co won't bring them to me anymore. I have found an alternative that I am beginning to experiment with. There is a food bank distribution warehouse in my town. They frequently have produce that is spoiling, in bags in cardboard boxes that they give me usually by the alletload. Otherwise they have to pay to dispose of it in the landfill. It is a win win Some of the produce I give to my chickens or goats, but it is too much for them. So now I have started shredding the cardboard boxes on my tables with a Dade blade in it. Then I can mix the spoiling vegetables with the shredded cardboard and lay it on top of unshredded cardboard for the mulch/sheet composting. It is another example of saving compostable biomass from the landfill and usining it to improve soil fertility. Your tip of using concrete reinforcing mesh for more durable is a great one I learned some 20 years ago. You are the only other person I have heard of doing it. Great minds thing alike. Happy BTE gardening. May God bless you and your family with health and happiness
Mark. I’m just watching your video. I’m a displaced hillbilly actually living on Maryland’s shore. I say you actually are not as you still live in the hills of my beloved home state. I use some of the same methods and find they work well. Good luck this year.
Thank you so much for sharing. It is really nice to see your garden after 10 years, and we enjoyed watching this video. We learned of the B2E method in 2015, implemented it the next spring. We just moved and started over 2 years ago...and we would never garden any other way. We have been an example to others and made them believers in the method that God has shared. Such a blessing!
Tasha, thank you for your interest, it sounds like you have been bitten by God's gardening bug. Once bitten, we just want to continue sharing so others can be bitten. Keep on sharing! Mark
Thanks for the update. Everything looks great! Great massage also. I love how the Lord is always speaking through his creation, and you nailed it with your scripture verse. He is always so patient and gentle with us. He's so very loving, and faithful. So continuously worthy of our praise.
Yes, very much so. He is my greatest passion and desire, and I'm continually amazed by his love, even in His discipline.. I'm glad to see you created a channel. I can't count how many times I've watched the BTE film. The Lord has planted great seeds in me with this film. Looking forward to hearing more of your experience with the gardening and the Lord also.
Well Mark, 10 yrs ago, you should have gotten an 18 Wheeler load of Potting Soil. You would have had similar results with your garden. LOL , Just Kidding. I am a wood chip nut similar to you. It is hard to beat free wood chips, I just wish they would break down faster. Your garden is amazing, thank you for sharing your hobby with us. Chips reduce weed growth and they are easy to pull out. Chips are also natures fertilizer, and they reduce the need for watering. Many thanks !
I’ve just found your videos and I am working my way through them. It is helping me to understand how to fix my veggie farming problem. I live near the coast in Australia and the soil is just so sandy. I have a small worm warm, 2 compost heaps and 2 compost buckets placed into 1 of my garden beds. Regardless of layering these around plants (all is 15 mths in working)… I can’t get any corn, cosmos, ranunculi, beans, potato (compost mixed with potting soil and sugar Cain to heap it in 6 large bags) or cauliflower to grow past a spindly little twig. The potatoes have been a couple of tiny ones. We have not had a lot of sun over the last 12 months here in Sydney though. It’s been wet, with some flooding and “strange weather happenings”. I will continue to learn, pray and compost and hope that in time my lack of crops will change?
I definitely think is was the Lord warning people to start preparing for the hard times ahead. I can't believe how high the food prices are right now and they are going higher! I've found great results from the Back to Eden method albeit it does take time in drier climates to break down.
Thank you for sharing your challenges and solutions with us! We are going from BTE in San Diego to BTE in the Midwest, smack in the middle of the country. There will be new challenges and we're looking to learn and not have to reinvent the gardening wheel with the different critters, rainfall, etc.
Love the comparison of the fertile soil of the garden to the soil of our life. Jesus said some seed fall on hard and weedy soil some on fertile soil. I hope my life can be as fertile as my garden. Love love love your video. God bless
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. In the video I understand that cedar is not good for wood-chips. In your next video you can recomend what tipe of wood-ship can be better?
Thank you for posting this update. I remember watching you build your original garden. I have been doing BTE gardening for 5 or 6 years now. My asparagus plants produce seed pods in the fall. Maybe one of your asparagus seeds traveled to the other bed with the wind! God Bless - Dave
Thank you for sharing your journey, it's helpful the things that you've shared that work, and don't work. I'm looking forward to getting my garden going!
Thank you for sharing the progress of your BTE garden. I am on season 3 of my BTE garden and will never go back to any other way. You had commented that you plant your potatoes in the fall.. can you give more details on your process. Thank you.
We have simply planted the potatoes about 8 inches down in the fall and they come up in the spring, if the greens get above ground and freeze they just come up again.
@@LivingLife1128 Thank you for your response. I have been waiting to hear feedback on this method from someone who is in my area. I will be trying this this fall. Thank you again.
Mark hit his forefinger with a hammer, or got it stuck in the door of his truck. Yep, "Contractor Life". Been there buddy! Oh, and the signs of a true wood chip gardener... clean fingernails! Too funny when he had to climb the side of the house to get a this cucumbers 🥒!
What kind of asparagus is that? Massive spears! I have some Jersey giant, but it isn't that big. I also planted conover's colossal last year, no idea how big it will come up this spring as I always planted crowns in the past.
Hi Mark - I have a question. I am advising people who start with virgin pasture to cover with cardboard and woodchip in the fall and then (to get quick results) to scrape back spots for growing plants (already started in modules) and spot apply compost. What do you think? Woodchip is free, but compost is expensive, so this approach is cost effective.
I am about to start BTE garden which I am very excited about. After watching several of Paul Gautchi youtube video, he showed how you can grow stuff under the trees. I don't recall if he explain in detail of what can and cannot grow under trees. He seems to say that you can grow anything under the trees and yet I have seen other BTE garden like your that don't grow under trees or orchard. I think Paul grows his under orchard...like small trees. Anyway, Im a little confuse so please clarify. Thank you.
Paul grows things under his trees because the soil under them are so broken down and fertile "after many years" that whatever he plants has no problem. His soil is more mature than most others.
Fantastic inspiring video. As I can see on the video, your last layer is wood chips. How do you resolve nitrogen deficiency, becaouse woodchips sucks nitrogen from your soil . Thanks for your answer. 😃😃
Great video!!! I liked and subbed! I have a few questions I hope you can address. 1st News paper is full of chemicals plus all that ink. I know so many youtubers recommend using the news paper but I have never heard anyone address the issue of chemicals and ink; 2) When did you plant the carrots you showed? Did you plant seeds in the Fall and by today, April 2020, they were already that size?; 3) Where do you source your wood chips and are some types of chips better than others? Thanks again for a great video!
Sheelah K Sheelah, thank you for your feedback on the video. Many people have asked the question about newspaper and ink. There is a very informative article that can be found on Permaculture news.org, the article is titled "Is Newspaper Safe For Your Garden?". Most newspaper and ink is excepted in the organic gardening community. The carrot seeds were planted toward late summer. We get our wood chips from the local tree service people. What they bring is what we use, although we use cedar sparingly. Thanks again for your interest.
So you pull back the wood chips, sow the seeds- beets, carrots, chard etc, push the chips back over it all and it finds its way through the chips? Even little beet stems??
In this video your garden in a small city lot, yet other videos you have a large garden with wood chip compost on acreage. Is the larger garden on land just for gardening?
Hi Mark Thank you so much for this valuable information. Everything resonates with me. Can we use sugar cane mulch on the top in the same way as wood chips? Thanks again 💙🌈💚
As you look back at the footprints you have left behind you, where you see only one set of tracks, I did not leave you, it was there that I carried you
I've been trying for the past year to make a back to eden garden. I've filmed a bunch of before and after videos using my drones and many other videos of my progress. I hate social media so I don't post to instagram or facebook or anything. Is there someone I can send this to to look at what I'm doing and see if it's right or things I can do better?
Wilma Ferreira Você conhece paisagistas e serviços de árvores? Talvez você possa encontrar alguém que corta a vegetação. Pequenos galhos de árvores com folhas estão cheios de bons minerais. Boa soite!
@@cmlmc1 tenho quue tentar ver onde arranjar.. mas ainda assim não estarão decompostas... o Paul deixa as woodchip em decomposição e usa quando elas já estão parecidas com terra ...
Mark, your videos are going to bless people from all around the world! You are an integral part of the Back to Eden Gardening movement! Thank you for allowing us to film you 10 years ago as you installed your demonstration garden!
I wish I had seen this Back to Eden video 5 years ago or even 2 years ago, but its never too late to start, we live in the Caribbean so we dont have the cold weather to contend with, I am hoping that I can kick start my projects, Don't worry Mark I will be messaging you for guidance if I run into challenges ... Such a blessing to hear you garden from the Biblical perspective, and I for sure am looking forward to seeing more of your content.
I like this guy.... But ultimately you have to learn what works for you.... I have disproven many myths people have told me ... Imagine that ... People repeating lies they are told ... Test and prove
Mark I hope you get this message. I started my woodchip garden in 2014 after watching Back To Eden video. I have a tremendous garden. It is so easy to take care of, it’s an 80’ by 80’ backyard garden. The reason I want you to get this message is I’ve learned to plant a cover crop in the fall which I kill out in the spring. I do this for 2 reasons. First to continually have roots in the ground which will build the soil and give food for all the microorganisms. 2nd is the cover crop will mulch the top of the garden all year long. Half of my garden now is this mulch cover and the other half have a woodchip cover. I’m actually in the tree business and I have a wood chipper and have access to all the chips I need. I actually prefer the mulch over the wood chips now that my garden is established.
Per your video - I DIDNT GIVE UP and God has blessed my garden tremendously. God Bless You Mark, Steve Miller
This man has the greatest voice I’ve ever heard, God bless and I hope you do more videos again! 🙏🏻💪🏻
Who would have guessed just HOW prophetic your comments of 10 years ago would be! So wonderful how you compared God's love to this gardening journey; thank you! I hope you make more videos.
It's crazy how God wants to reveal his love to us in all of our journeys! Yes, more videos are on the way. Thank you for watching!
"I was so proud of you that you didn't give up" ❤️💕 I so love that!!
The whole world needs to garden this way! Especially in climates with drought. My 86 year old aunt (died in 2009) gardened this way since the 60's in CA. She had a thriving mini orchard and garden 1/4 of acre. She grew all kinds of vegetables, Kiwi, apples, nectarines, peaches (3 different kinds), persimmons, pears, cherries, almonds, walnuts. The bounty was amazing and she always made jams for the family.
It appears as though your aunt was a forerunner! And yes, this message is very effective in climate with drought. Thank you for watching and your comments. Mark
Hope a worthy family/individual became the next steward over your aunt's prosperity garden.
Hallelujah TO GOD BE THE GLORY
You have a lifetime garden now. Something your family can share for generations. Every year will be better and more fertile.
Very true!
Mark is the real deal!! Great garden, greater couple. I have visited this garden, soil is amazing, but the people are better. I’m so glad you are making these videos! I look forward to many more!
YOU are a tremendous BLESSING! Thank you
Thank you for sharing. We've put in dozens of BTE gardens in the last two years and I wouldn't grow any other way.
They work don't do they? Thanks for your input.
Found your channel and subscribed. Saw your video on the website I book Paul's second edition book by Devine. I've been BTE gardening for 4 years now and I do believe God released this method through Paul to save his children from hardship. I'm disabled and can't till, pull lots of weeds anymore besides I never enjoyed that at all. BTE gardening is So abundant and enjoyable that I now grow food all year in zone7. 😀
I love that give God glory while showing yall's success
Thank you, Mark. You inspire me to garden more and to bring our Lord Jesus into my internal conversation.
Great ready to survive the first passing of the throne.
thanks for the tuition.
t minus 82 weeks n counting.
God.. Bless.
I’m watching and listening but I’m just listening to your voice!!! It’s such a awesome voice. Lol, I will watch the video again without getting distracted.
Excellent presentation! I'm so happy to see the progress you've made after all of these years. What a blessing! Hoping to be able to tour your garden. Be safe!
Thank you for watching and for your comment. It would be wonderful to have you at the garden. Mark
Gardening is a spiritual journey. Thank you for sharing yours with the rest of the world. Thank you for your words of wisdom. The Lord is my light and joy and I shall forever give glory to Him that created Heaven and Earth and us His children.
Yes and amen!
So beautiful to see your joy with learning and growing with connection to God. Thank you!
A word of warning about soil temperatures...I heard Paul Gautschi say something about chips being warmer earlier and things will grow earlier. Last year was the first year I really started getting results from my BTE garden experience and I found this to be absolutely true, but, maybe last year was weird with late freezes and all, but I struggled with a lot of things coming up early and getting frosted out. I love this method, but I, too, have made every mistake I could imagine but it's all education. Knowing what not to do is is a blessing!
Dandelions are good...... I leave them in my.garden.... I see it as a blessing
Agree. Every County should buy farmland for homeless to camp and grow food, wood chips, and have these inspirations, as you do. Thanks
His voice is incredible!
I started my backyard garden July 11, 2021. I made a raised bed (actually, I just mounded up dirt around an area to keep the water from flowing away fast when it rains) and planted some green onions bought at the store. And they grew!
Then, I kept learning. Soaking it in like a sponge! I found Elaine Ingham and Paul Gauchi. Now I have a good microscope, to check on my flocks and herds (Proverbs 27:23). And, from my wife's yardwork service company, I have begun hot composting like a madman! (dramatic, eh?) My back, front, and side yards are all now "covered" with half composted yard waste. I can hardly wait for my first delivery of wood chips from a local tree service here in Tucson, AZ.
I'm lovin' it!
WOW This Garden is so beautiful and inspiring! Thank you for the amazing share!
Thank you for taking the time to watch the video.
Amen. Thanks for your words of encouragement Mark!
I love your analogy of how the LORD wants us to find joy with him...
Wow, what a blessing. As soon as our Frederick County, MD landfill opens we're going to get our composted soil and get going! LOL Thank you for sharing what God as shown you.
Wonderful! Let's get things open!
In other regions outside of the north east, the concrete remesh is referred to as "Welded Wire Mesh", or WWM at the supply house. Great tips from Mark. So glad he devotes the time to share his garden publicly. Great family for sure, great people to learn from.
Hi Mark Mc comber, greetings and blessings to you from Bulgaria East Europe.
I watched BTE atheist 4 times and some of the series others put out,
My country doesn't have that service in Bg but I had a lot of goat and hey bedding mix. I left it to rot just for a year. My soil went from light gray to dark black soil filled with worms.
This year I am doing some beds with lasagna method , some with hugulkultre and 1 with compost scraps and wood branches with leaves chopped by hand.
It's finally time to get serious about growing our own food and you were right about the 10 year remark you made in the documentary.
May God bless keep and protect yiu fam in Pensilvania,
Tell Paul Gauchi a sister in Bulgaria sends her warm greetings.
Ps sorry I misspelled yiur name Brother Mark
Thank you for believing the lord information to grow my vegetables .am a new Gardener and new to your channel.
simply amazing
Thanks Jerry.
Watch How Mushrooms Can Save The World on TED X youtube.The speaker scientist is Paul Stamets and how mushrooms clean the earth basiclly by eating and digesting diesel fuel just to mention one.Mushrooms are like the internet wiring under ground that actually communicate with each other.The medicinal miracles are endless and I have a feeling that the cure for covid- 19 is staring at us in Old Growth Forest.Too bad money is wasted on Big Pharma funding.
I love your testimony. Thank you for giving all the credit to God. I just recently discovered the garden of Eden method. It clicked with me having dug ginseng over the years and witnessing the black, fertile soil created by a natural process in the forest. I will be using this method for now on.
Hello Mark. It is great to know you have continued to carry them BTE gardening torch. I love watching Paul in this garden through the years, but it is evident he is slowing down.
I have attempted to collect wood chips in my area and it has proved very difficult as I live in south east Arizona, part of the upper Sonoran desert extending north from mexico. Not a lot of trees and the company who does prune for the electric co won't bring them to me anymore.
I have found an alternative that I am beginning to experiment with. There is a food bank distribution warehouse in my town. They frequently have produce that is spoiling, in bags in cardboard boxes that they give me usually by the alletload. Otherwise they have to pay to dispose of it in the landfill. It is a win win
Some of the produce I give to my chickens or goats, but it is too much for them.
So now I have started shredding the cardboard boxes on my tables with a Dade blade in it. Then I can mix the spoiling vegetables with the shredded cardboard and lay it on top of unshredded cardboard for the mulch/sheet composting.
It is another example of saving compostable biomass from the landfill and usining it to improve soil fertility.
Your tip of using concrete reinforcing mesh for more durable is a great one I learned some 20 years ago. You are the only other person I have heard of doing it. Great minds thing alike.
Happy BTE gardening. May God bless you and your family with health and happiness
Ron, I love your creative solutions, thank you!
Mark. I’m just watching your video. I’m a displaced hillbilly actually living on Maryland’s shore. I say you actually are not as you still live in the hills of my beloved home state. I use some of the same methods and find they work well. Good luck this year.
Thank you so much for sharing. It is really nice to see your garden after 10 years, and we enjoyed watching this video. We learned of the B2E method in 2015, implemented it the next spring. We just moved and started over 2 years ago...and we would never garden any other way. We have been an example to others and made them believers in the method that God has shared. Such a blessing!
Tasha, thank you for your interest, it sounds like you have been bitten by God's gardening bug. Once bitten, we just want to continue sharing so others can be bitten. Keep on sharing! Mark
Thanks for the update. Everything looks great! Great massage also. I love how the Lord is always speaking through his creation, and you nailed it with your scripture verse. He is always so patient and gentle with us. He's so very loving, and faithful. So continuously worthy of our praise.
Thank you for your comments, it sounds like you are speaking from experience regarding the character of the Lord!
Yes, very much so. He is my greatest passion and desire, and I'm continually amazed by his love, even in His discipline.. I'm glad to see you created a channel. I can't count how many times I've watched the BTE film. The Lord has planted great seeds in me with this film. Looking forward to hearing more of your experience with the gardening and the Lord also.
This is beautiful! Thank you! May God bless!
We live in Sequim, WA and love seeing you carry on Paul’s legacy. You are an awesome torch bearer!🤩
Super Job - Just wanted to share - Old TV Roof Top Antenna Stands make great tomato cages!
God Bless you, my bro.
Well Mark, 10 yrs ago, you should have gotten an 18 Wheeler load of Potting Soil.
You would have had similar results with your garden. LOL , Just Kidding.
I am a wood chip nut similar to you. It is hard to beat free wood chips, I just wish they would
break down faster. Your garden is amazing, thank you for sharing your hobby with us.
Chips reduce weed growth and they are easy to pull out. Chips are also natures fertilizer,
and they reduce the need for watering. Many thanks !
I’ve just found your videos and I am working my way through them. It is helping me to understand how to fix my veggie farming problem. I live near the coast in Australia and the soil is just so sandy. I have a small worm warm, 2 compost heaps and 2 compost buckets placed into 1 of my garden beds. Regardless of layering these around plants (all is 15 mths in working)… I can’t get any corn, cosmos, ranunculi, beans, potato (compost mixed with potting soil and sugar Cain to heap it in 6 large bags) or cauliflower to grow past a spindly little twig. The potatoes have been a couple of tiny ones. We have not had a lot of sun over the last 12 months here in Sydney though. It’s been wet, with some flooding and “strange weather happenings”. I will continue to learn, pray and compost and hope that in time my lack of crops will change?
Thanks, I enjoyed your video.
I definitely think is was the Lord warning people to start preparing for the hard times ahead. I can't believe how high the food prices are right now and they are going higher! I've found great results from the Back to Eden method albeit it does take time in drier climates to break down.
Wonderful video! Do you have plans on adding more content over time? You seem like someone with a lot of great advice to share.
Yes, more will be coming. Thank you
Thank you for sharing your challenges and solutions with us! We are going from BTE in San Diego to BTE in the Midwest, smack in the middle of the country. There will be new challenges and we're looking to learn and not have to reinvent the gardening wheel with the different critters, rainfall, etc.
Thank you for your comment and for watching Jennifer. It looks like you are a BTE believer!
In Alabama we use hog wire which looks a lot like your rebar.
I grow tomatoes, pole beans, butternut squash and muscadines on it.
Love the comparison of the fertile soil of the garden to the soil of our life. Jesus said some seed fall on hard and weedy soil some on fertile soil. I hope my life can be as fertile as my garden. Love love love your video. God bless
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience. In the video I understand that cedar is not good for wood-chips. In your next video you can recomend what tipe of wood-ship can be better?
Yes Dora, I will certainly discuss that topic in the near future.
Thank you for posting this update. I remember watching you build your original garden. I have been doing BTE gardening for 5 or 6 years now. My asparagus plants produce seed pods in the fall. Maybe one of your asparagus seeds traveled to the other bed with the wind! God Bless - Dave
You are probably right about the asparagus! Thank you for the comment.
Awesome video, much respect and appreciation, and may we all meet in God's Kingdom soon 🙏!
Thank you for sharing your journey, it's helpful the things that you've shared that work, and don't work. I'm looking forward to getting my garden going!
Starting a new garden in Maui. 😎 Enjoyed all the growing tips.
TY for the follow-up.
God bless you for sharing this video, I was so curious as to how you guys did after so long!
You have a new fan! I’m delirious for the spiritual aspect as well as the gardening :-)
You did excellent job!!!!I planning to do the same this year and to educate another to do the same!
Just found your channel today. Love your garden and your message. New subscriber.
Thank you for sharing the progress of your BTE garden.
I am on season 3 of my BTE garden and will never go back to any other way.
You had commented that you plant your potatoes in the fall.. can you give more details on your process.
Thank you.
We have simply planted the potatoes about 8 inches down in the fall and they come up in the spring, if the greens get above ground and freeze they just come up again.
@@LivingLife1128 Thank you for your response.
I have been waiting to hear feedback on this method from someone who is in my area.
I will be trying this this fall.
Thank you again.
Mark hit his forefinger with a hammer, or got it stuck in the door of his truck. Yep, "Contractor Life". Been there buddy! Oh, and the signs of a true wood chip gardener... clean fingernails! Too funny when he had to climb the side of the house to get a this cucumbers 🥒!
Try to plan some potato in the pile of wood chip where you are sitting!
Great information
Thank you ❤️
This is a tremendous video ❤
Awesome garden !! I remember seeing you in the film..where abouts are you in Pa? We are down outside philadelphia
God is Awesome Always Amen 🙏
Thank you.
Thank you
What kind of asparagus is that? Massive spears! I have some Jersey giant, but it isn't that big. I also planted conover's colossal last year, no idea how big it will come up this spring as I always planted crowns in the past.
Great video!
Hi Mark - I have a question. I am advising people who start with virgin pasture to cover with cardboard and woodchip in the fall and then (to get quick results) to scrape back spots for growing plants (already started in modules) and spot apply compost. What do you think? Woodchip is free, but compost is expensive, so this approach is cost effective.
I think it has alot to do with what kinda trees got chipped, and how much humidity you get. I got palm chip in the dessert still look brand new! 😂
I have a Back to Eden Garden but it is to wet. I dug down to ground and there is water in some places under the chips. What do you recommend?
I am about to start BTE garden which I am very excited about. After watching several of Paul Gautchi youtube video, he showed how you can grow stuff under the trees. I don't recall if he explain in detail of what can and cannot grow under trees. He seems to say that you can grow anything under the trees and yet I have seen other BTE garden like your that don't grow under trees or orchard. I think Paul grows his under orchard...like small trees. Anyway, Im a little confuse so please clarify. Thank you.
Paul grows things under his trees because the soil under them are so broken down and fertile "after many years" that whatever he plants has no problem. His soil is more mature than most others.
Fantastic inspiring video. As I can see on the video, your last layer is wood chips. How do you resolve nitrogen deficiency, becaouse woodchips sucks nitrogen from your soil .
Thanks for your answer. 😃😃
Great video!!! I liked and subbed! I have a few questions I hope you can address. 1st News paper is full of chemicals plus all that ink. I know so many youtubers recommend using the news paper but I have never heard anyone address the issue of chemicals and ink;
2) When did you plant the carrots you showed? Did you plant seeds in the Fall and by today, April 2020, they were already that size?; 3) Where do you source your wood chips and are some types of chips better than others? Thanks again for a great video!
Sheelah K Sheelah, thank you for your feedback on the video. Many people have asked the question about newspaper and ink. There is a very informative article that can be found on Permaculture news.org, the article is titled "Is Newspaper Safe For Your Garden?". Most newspaper and ink is excepted in the organic gardening community. The carrot seeds were planted toward late summer. We get our wood chips from the local tree service people. What they bring is what we use, although we use cedar sparingly. Thanks again for your interest.
Do you put your wood ashes on your garden Paul says they are great for minerals.
Those dandelions are food too.
Thanks for putting this video together. I do have a question. With this gardening method, do you ever use any fertilizers or soil supplements at all?
So you pull back the wood chips, sow the seeds- beets, carrots, chard etc, push the chips back over it all and it finds its way through the chips? Even little beet stems??
Question: In tropical areas with lots of rain, can the Back To Eden method be applied?
So the layering is manure, compost, newspaper, wood chips on the new spot?
Can you share your wood burning fire stove for heating in winter?
In this video your garden in a small city lot, yet other videos you have a large garden with wood chip compost on acreage. Is the larger garden on land just for gardening?
Hi Mark
Thank you so much for this valuable information. Everything resonates with me.
Can we use sugar cane mulch on the top in the same way as wood chips?
Thanks again
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THIS IS BEAUTIFUL I WANT TO DO THIS WHAT DO I NBEED TO BEGIN? IM IN OHIO
How do you keep the grass from growing through your edges into the woodchips? That kills me
I know its been a long time, but do you have a soil test?
Bro, you sound like a beef bouillon, fantastic, keep it up with wood chips!
wow what was the material (white) under the wood chips?
It would be newspaper
As you look back at the footprints you have left behind you, where you see only one set of tracks, I did not leave you, it was there that I carried you
I've been trying for the past year to make a back to eden garden. I've filmed a bunch of before and after videos using my drones and many other videos of my progress. I hate social media so I don't post to instagram or facebook or anything. Is there someone I can send this to to look at what I'm doing and see if it's right or things I can do better?
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The entire dandelion is edible.
I need help. I'm from Portugal.. I dont know where I can have wood chips...
Wilma Ferreira Você conhece paisagistas e serviços de árvores? Talvez você possa encontrar alguém que corta a vegetação. Pequenos galhos de árvores com folhas estão cheios de bons minerais. Boa soite!
@@cmlmc1 tenho quue tentar ver onde arranjar.. mas ainda assim não estarão decompostas... o Paul deixa as woodchip em decomposição e usa quando elas já estão parecidas com terra ...
@@wilmaferreira1642 Algumas pessoas cobrem o chão com papelão e empilham as lascas de madeira para deixá-las se decompor na horta.
Can you use cardboard instead of newspaper?
Matthew 11:28 KJV - Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
I made the mistake of getting loads of sawdust down.
Question: What can iI grow in heavy clay in an area that does not get sun.